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    Dante Roscini

    Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

    • March 2022 (Revised October 2022)
    • Case

    Transforming Kimball International, Inc. (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Kimball International, Inc. (KII), led by CEO Kristie Juster, and its board of directors, chaired by Kim Ryan, faced critical questions about KII’s future in the spring of 2021. Two years earlier, the board had appointed Juster as the new CEO of KII, a publicly traded,... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Board Decisions; Board Dynamics; CEO Compensation; CEO Succession; Compensation Committee; Compensation Consultants; Compensation Design; Compensation Mix; Corporate Purpose; COVID-19; ESG; Furniture; Furniture Industry; Manufacturing; Midwest; Pandemic; Purpose; Spin Off; Strategic Change; Strategic Decisions; Strategic Evolution; Target-setting; Executive Compensation; Family Ownership; Governance; Restructuring; Strategy; Transformation; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    • February 2009 (Revised June 2010)
    • Background Note

    Note on Measuring Controlling Shareholder's Ownership, Voting, and Control Rights

    Founders and their families can raise equity without relinquishing control of their companies through the use of mechanisms such as dual-class stock, pyramidal ownership, voting agreements, and disproportionate board representation. The use of these mechanisms in... View Details
    Keywords: Equity; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Measurement and Metrics; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation
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    • November 2024 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    Cheerful Music

    By: Shunyuan Zhang, Feng Zhu and Nancy Hua Dai
    Established by Snow Jiang in 2019 in Shenzhen, China, Cheerful Music was a record label company that had created many hit songs in China. “Yi Xiao Jiang Hu,” its most famous hit song, gained billions of views on social media platforms in China and overseas as the... View Details
    Keywords: Generative Ai; Music Entertainment; Global Strategy; Business Model; AI and Machine Learning; Market Entry and Exit; Music Industry; China; United Kingdom; London
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      W. Carl Kester

      Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
      • January 2007 (Revised December 2007)
      • Case

      PSI: Social Marketing Clean Water

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Nava Ashraf and Marie Bell
      Senior management at PSI, arguably the world's largest and most successful social marketer with impressive achievements in the field of family planning, HIV/AIDS, and malaria prevention must determine what to do about their slow-to-take-off clean water initiative.... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Funds; Health Care and Treatment; Social Marketing; Natural Environment; Social Enterprise; Business Strategy
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      • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
      • Case

      Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (A)

      By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang
      Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, started in January 2006, is a rapidly growing law firm in China's burgeoning legal services market. In addition to the usual challenges facing all professional service firms (picking and retaining talent and building a desired client... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Legal Services Industry; China
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      • 23 Dec 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: December 23, 2008

      China Harvard Business School Case 209-021 The Chubb Corporation, headquartered in the U.S., was View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • November 2017
      • Case

      Outrageous Ambition: Duke University

      By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang
      Duke University had grown from a one room schoolhouse in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the... View Details
      Keywords: Duke University; University Governance; Internationalization; Duke Kunshan University; Interdisciplinarity; Higher Education; Interdisciplinary Studies; Global Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Education Industry; United States; China; Singapore
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      • 14 Apr 2022
      • Blog Post

      Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

      her comfort zone, going straight from her Political Science undergraduate degree to Wall Street. When she accepted the Foreign Exchange Sales Analyst role at Bank of America, Gomih’s friends and View Details
      • 22 Apr 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: April 22, 2008

      family business structures are discussed in the context of how they shaped the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 12 Dec 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

      percent in 2017, Alfaro notes. Yet, the step back from business with China did not represent a retreat from global trade; US good imports hit an... View Details
      Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
      • November 2010 (Revised April 2011)
      • Case

      Magna International, Inc. (A)

      By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Yuhai Xuan
      Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a 0.65% economic interest in the company but has 66% of the votes via a... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Restructuring; Cost vs Benefits; Governance Controls; Ownership Stake; Family Ownership; Auto Industry; Canada
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        Willy C. Shih

        Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration.  He is part of the Technology and Operations Management Unit, and he teaches in the MBA and Executive Education Programs.  His expertise is in manufacturing, product... View Details

        Keywords: aerospace; automotive; biotechnology; communications; computer; digital imaging; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; high technology; industrial goods; information technology industry; manufacturing; retailing; semiconductor

          W. Earl Sasser

          Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

          Keywords: airline; automotive; banking; broadcasting; communications; construction; credit card; education industry; entertainment; fast food; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; marketing industry; oil ＆ gas; restaurant; retailing; service industry; sports; tourism; transportation
          • 20 Dec 2010
          • Research & Ideas

          Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

          A favorite topic of historians and palindrome fans alike, the Panama Canal has perpetually changed the international trade business. In their new... View Details
          Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
          • 23 Aug 2016
          • First Look

          August 23, 2016

          https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51538 July–August 2016 European Business Review The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors By: Teixeira, Thales S., and Peter... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
          • 02 Jun 2010
          • First Look

          First Look: June 2

          the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the exchange relationship and the dispute, the... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 2008 - 2008
          • Conference Presentation

          Organizational Identity as an Anchor for Adaptation: An Emerging Market Perspective

          By: Andres Hatum, Luciana Silvestri and Roberto Vassolo
          There is little doubt that organizational identity—that which is central, distinctive, and enduring about an organization—mediates in adaptive processes. Exactly how this mediation takes place, and whether it is favorable or unfavorable to adaptation, must still be... View Details
          Keywords: Identity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Business; Strategy; Emerging Markets
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          • 04 Oct 2011
          • First Look

          First Look: October 4

          Marquis, Jianjun Zhang, and Yanhua Zhou Publication:California Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne